Clues for the word "BOWL"
We've had 137 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 170 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 21, 2025.
Definition of bowl
- n. - A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
- n. - Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
- n. - The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
- n. - The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
- n. - A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
- n. - An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
- n. - The game of tenpins or bowling.
- v. t. - To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
- v. t. - To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
- v. t. - To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- v. i. - To play with bowls.
- v. i. - To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
- v. i. - To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
Referring Clues
- New Year's Day game
- New Year's event
- New Year's entertainment
- Cereal serving
- Play in an alley
- Mixing site
- Big sports event
- Play in the alley
- Super event?
- Orange or Rose
- Candy container
- Get a spare, perhaps
- Place for some flakes
- Hit the lanes
- Get a turkey, say
- Cricketer's action
- Any of five that begin this puzzle's longest answers
- Knock down some pins
- Enjoy an alley
- Place for mixing
- College football team's desire
- Post-season game
- "The Super ___ Shuffle"
- People mix here
- Sugar or Cotton
- Sugar or Rose, e.g.
- Soup-holding dish
- Word with Orange or Peach
- Emulate the Dude
- Roll in the gutter, at times
- It often has milk poured into it
- Try for a perfect 300
- Pitch : baseball :: ___ : cricket
- January 1 game
- Postseason gridiron game, and a hint to the puzzle theme found in starred answers
- Soup setting
- Arena
- Soup need
- Cereal holder
- Fruit container
- Soup vessel
- Cereal container
- Partake at tenpins
- Post-season football game
- Seek strikes
- What keglers do
- Many a New Year's Day game
- Old King Cole called for one
- Soup serving
- Postseason grid matchup
- Piece of dinnerware
- Sugar container
- Aim for pins
- Use a lane
- Big game
- Amphitheater
- Tureen
- Pipe part
- Cereal dish
- Get spares
- Hollow, rounded part
- College football team's goal
- '...like a ___ full of jelly'
- Dish
- Go for strikes?
- Postseason game
- Dish for soup
- Word with soup or salad
- Rose or orange
- Breakfast dish
- Word with "-A-Rama"
- College football reward
- Super-Shuffle link
- See 5-Down
- Word following sugar or super
- Hunt duck pins
- Season-ending college football game
- Shoot for strikes and spares
- Stadium
- Place to put cereal
- Breakfast cereal container
- Put out a container
- Try to knock down 10 pins
- Soup dish
- Primus "Tales From the Punch___"
- Mumford and Sons "Dust ___ Dance"
- Springsteen rocked Super ___ XLIII
- Blackbird to launch a 24 across
- Wooden ball used in lawn game
- Basin
- US stadium for sporting or musical events
- Play with tenpins
- Deliver receptacle
- Round container
- Get out, blackbird!
- Greatly surprise
- Round vessel - wooden ball
- Try for a strike
- See 20
- Soup dish - roll a ball
- Deliver a blackbird
- Vessel
- Blackbird in wood
- Sweep off one's feet as the Don Juan of Cockneys?
- Dish of wood
- Container for blackbird
- Black bird in hollow
- Receptacle
- Women going into loft backwards to make deliveries
- Play duckpins, say
- Container for soup or cereal
- Round dish for breakfast cereal
- Round deep dish or basin
- Play tenpins
- Dismiss a bigheaded bird
- Chili container
- Electric mixer accessory
- Dish for oatmeal
- Soup container
- Roll a ball toward the pins
- Ersatz haircut shaper
- Chowder order
- Hang out in alleys
- What soup is served in
- Get the ball rolling, in a way
- Dish for cereal
- Throw a ball down an alley lane
- Word after "poke" or "acai"
- Pitch, in cricket
- Dish for butajiru
- Part of a pipe
- Many a New Year's Day football game
- Get the ball rolling?
- –
- Postseason football game
- Poke ___
- Postseason college football game
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 21, 2025
- New York Times - August 31, 2025
- New York Times - July 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 11, 2025
- New York Times - June 08, 2025
- LA Times - May 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 28, 2025
- LA Times - February 05, 2025
- Family Time - December 01, 2024
- New York Times - October 10, 2024
- USA Today - August 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 22, 2024
- LA Times - July 10, 2024
- Daily American - May 14, 2024
- USA Today - March 26, 2024
- LA Times - March 01, 2024
- USA Today - January 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 23, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 21, 2023
- USA Today - July 01, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 28, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 23, 2023
- New York Times - January 19, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 29, 2018
- Netword - December 03, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 09, 2017
- LA Times - October 02, 2017
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2017
- And in 140 more crossword puzzles...